Chap. 108.—An ACT to Appoint a Board of Trustees for the Virginis
Female Institute, at Staunton, and to Provide for the Future Govern.-
ment of said Institute.

Approved March 14, 1874.

Whereas a large number of the original stockholders ot
the Virginia female institute, at Staunton, have departed this
life without known legal representatives, and are represented
to have subscribed stock in said institute with no view to
gain, but to promote female education; and whereas on the
day of , one thousand eight hundred and
at a general meeting of the stockholders of said institute.
authority was given to the board of directors thereof to
transfer the property and effects of said institute to the con-
vention of the Protestant Episcopal church in the diocese of
Virginia, provided said convention would pay off the debts
charged upon said property, and thus preserve the same for
the purpose designed by the charter of said institute; and
‘whereas said convention did in fact, by means of contribu-
tions raised for that object, pay off and discharge said debts,
‘but has been and still is legally incapable of accepting such
transfer; and whereas the present board of trustees of said
institute concur in desiring additional legislation in order to
remove uncertainty and doubt as to the title by which said
property is to be held, and to provide for the more efficient
government of said institute; therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
John Johns, F. M. Whittle, David N. Walker, Nathaniel H.
Massie, Robert E. Withers, Joseph R. Anderson, Francis H.
Smith, George Newton, Tazewell Taylor, Francis T. Strib-
ling, Henderson M. Bell, John N. Hendren, Hugh W. Sheffey,
William G. Cazenove, and John M. Miller be, and they are
hereby appointed trustees of the Virginia female institute,
in the city of Stauntdn, and they and their successors shall
constitute a board with full power to manage and control the
property and affairs of said institute; to adopt proper and
needful rules and regulations for the government of the
same; to appoint annually a board of directors; and to hold,
preserve, and use the property and effects of said institute
for the uses and purposes of its original charter, and none
other.

2. The first meeting of said board of trustees shall be held
in the month of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, on |

such day and at such place as the five persons first named in
this act shall designate. There shall be at least one regular
meeting of the board in each year, the time and place of such
meeting to be fixed by said board. Any five members may
call a special meeting, provided notice of the time and place
be given to the other members in person or by publication
thereof in the Southern Churchman, or other newspaper of
general circulation in said diocese, for two weeks at least
prior to such meeting. At any meeting five members may q
proceed as a board to transact business. hs

3. The said board of trustees shall have no power to divert T
the property and effects of the Virginia female institute from
the purposes for which they were acquired and have been «
held and used: that is to say, for the education of white 4
females in the city of Staunton.

4. The said board of trustees shall have power to fill any v
vacancies which may occur in their body arising from death, >
resignation, inability or refusal to act, or removal from such
diocese: provided, however, that any such vacancy shall be
filled by the selection of one of three or more persons recoms
mended therefor by the council of the Protestant Episcopal
church in the diocese of Virginia.

5. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as impair- r
ing the chartered rights of the Virginia female institute—
this act being intended to secure more efficient means for the
government of the same.

6. This act shall be in force from its passage. C